Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1887-09-23
4 DRTGGBT'S MISTAKE.
A Sick Mans Vile Disregards the Druggists
Advice and So Saves the Life OF
Her Husband.

| so too.
live in East 18th street, west Of
Third avenue. and have lived there for
about twenty-three years, where own
real estate. Up to the time am about
to mention had been a strong, well
man. There was always more or less
malaria in the neighborhood, but had
not personally suffered from it. 1t was
in 1880 had my first attack. 1t came
on as such attacks commonly do, with
headaches. loss of appetite and ambi-
ton, chilly sensations with slight fever
afterwards, Il disposition to vawn and
stretch, and so forth. was employed
at that time at Killians Il Brothers,
| furniture manufacturers. in West SD
street hoped the attack would wear
off but Is il didn, { | consulted a we'll
known and able physician in Norris
ania, who gave me Il in II" and told me
what to do. | can sam .ip the first four
| and half or five Years of my expert
ence in few words. Occasionally |
was laid up for day Or two. but on
the whole sta K ~ ms work. kept
taking quininr. il iur.c doses from
| year to year, M q, -; % citing weak
er and worse. ,N > rl surely. all the
time. Nv troHhi" was now well de-
fined and its symptoms We're steady and
regular hal ;,Inh ague in its worst
form, and it was -r.niinE me down III
spite of all that | could do or the doc
tors could do. 1t he'd me in a grip like
tire IN q bu1njag co4i mine. The poison
had gone all through and over me and
nothing was able t. touch it. | was
fast losing ii shand strength, and about
| March, 1881. Knocked Of work entire
| " and went home Ia be down sick, and
to die for all could tell. ran down so
rapidly that | soon became unable to
walk any distance. Later went from
room to room in my own house only by
| friends holding me up by each arm. The
| doses of Quinine were increased until L
| often took thirty grams at a dose. The
| effects of this tremendous stimulation
was to make me nearly wild. 1t broke
my sleep all up. and | often walked the
floor. or staggered about it, all night
long. scarcely able to bear any noises
or even human speech. My temper
was extremely irritable. As to food,
one of my little children would eat
| more i'm meal than | could in day.
| would order food and then turn from
it in disgust. | lived on quinine and
other stinulants and on myself, like a
bear in winter The quinine set my
head in a whirl, and the liquor-given
rs medicine-made my stomach so
| sick | could not tolerate it.
From l7j pounds (my proper weight
| ran down to 81 poundS-the weight
| of light girl-and was scarcely better
| than Il skeleton.
If mybody hal taken Ratchet and
Knocked me d0lCn and killed me l should
hace been Jeitcr of.
During the latter part of this period,
early in 1886, my physician said;
miller, there's no use in my taking
any more money of you, can't do you
any good. might pour pounds of quiz
| nine down your throat and it wouldn't
help YOU
On the strength of this gave up the
use of quinine altogether, and made up
my mind to do nothing more and take
my chances.
Three weeks afterwardS-about the
last Of May-my wife saw an advertise
ment of KaSkine in Il New York paper.
She told me of it, | said: "Stuff and
nonsensc it can't do me any good"
But she went to n druggists, neverthe-
less, to get it. The druggist advised
her against KaSkine: he said it was
nothing but sugar; that she ought not
To throw away her money on it, &c.
He said he didn't keep it, but could get
| il if she insisted on having it. Turn
ing away in disgust my wife spoke to
our neighbor, Mr.. A. G. Hegewald,
who got her Il bottle at a drug store in
Sixth avenue.
Almost against my will, and without
the least faith, | began taking it. In
one week | was better. | began to
sleep. stopped seeing ghosts. "
began 20 have an appetite and to gain
strength. This was now the first of
June. 1886, and by the end of that
month | was back at my bench at c. P.
Smiths scroll saving factory in 10th
street. where work now.
Since then have never lost day
from sickness. Taking Kaskine only.
about forty pellets in four equal doses
dav. continued to gain. The ma
laria appeared to he killed in my sys-
tenn, and now I've got back my old
weight It's poundS-and my old
strength To labor am an astonish-
mrnt to myself and to my friends, and
if Kaskine did not do this | don't know
what did The only greater thing it
could do would be to bring dead man
to life. FREDERICK A. MILLER,
$50 East l57th Street, New York.
| ID tbn absolute tIutb of tho
above statement refer to the following
gentlemen, who are personally ac-
Guainted with the facts: Mr.. Alex
ander Weir. 626 l56th St.; Mr.. George
Seaman. l5Sth street and Courtlandt
avenue: Mr.. A. Moebus, 154th street
and CoWtlandt avenue; Mr.. L. r.
Vaupel, l54th street and Courtlandt
avenue; Mr.. John Luuny, $50 East
15Sth street: Mr. John Renshaw, l24
125th street. and many others. will
also reply to letters of inquiry.
We submit that the above astonish-
inc cure, vouched for as it is by repu-
table men, is deserving of a thorough
and candid investigation by thinking
people. And we further submit that
when druggists turn away customers
| by falsifving the character of remedy
because they do not happen to have it
on hand, they do great wrong II
this afflicted man had not disregarded
the druggists advice and sent else.
where for the remedy he would without
doubt have been in his grave.
Other letters of a similar character
from prominent individuals, which
stamp Kaskine rs a remedy OF I'M
doubted merit, will be sent on appllca-
ton. Price, $1.0O, or 6 bottles, $500
Sold by Druggists, OF sent by mail on
receipt of price.
The Kaskine Company, "a Warren
St., New York. -